PoV: Applejack

Ah downed my drink in one go and watched as dash tried to finish hers, as much as she can try she couldn’t beat me in a drinking contest.

“One… more…” She said as she waved her cup around.

“Dash give it up, this is ya’s 23ed lost in a row, ah don’t think you can handle it if we continue.” Ah told her. She glared at me and was going to say something but ah saw her face go green and she ran off for the nearest pale. I chuckled at that and saw Moonlight doing the same. “What do you see in her”

“She’s sometimes funny, nothing wrong with that.” She said to me. Ah nodded and took a sip from my water. After ten minutes Rainbow came back looking groggy.

“Never again.” She moaned. Ah rolled my eyes at her.

“Sure you say that but in a week, ya’ll be asking for another drinking contest.” Ah reminded her. She looked at me as ah passed her a cup of water. We continued talking for a bit until something came to mind. “Say, where’s Silver sleeping?”

“Oh, she’s at the cottage,” Moonlight answered. Ah nodded at her.

“Right, well ah think we have to find her a new place if Jace doesn't mind her there.” Ah said to her. Ah looked over and saw Light looking at me as if ah just said something that ah shouldn’t. “You… you did tell him right?”

“Ummm…”

“Oh, horseapples.”

We ran towards the cottage as fast as we could, which was hard since Dash was still drunk. Moonlight had to carry her most of the way there. When ah saw the place everything looked alright.

“Alright everything seemed to be fine, now we…” Ah started but was cut off.

“AHHHHHH!!!” A scream was heard towards the cottage. Ah saw the door open as a figure ran out of the door, just as something blue shot out of the door and wrap around the figure.

“That’s not good,” Moonlight said. We both ran over to her, as we did, ah saw Jace walk out of his home. He looked at the mare on the ground and then at us, he didn’t look happy.

“Can someone explain to me why there’s an umbra pony in my house!?!”

Jace
5 minutes later

I rubbed my eyes as I listened to the three mares tell me what the hell happened over the last year, I felt tired I wanted to go to bed.

“Let me get this straight, a couple months ago Twilight found a black orb in her home and as she was going to study it, it latched on her and made her,” I pointed to the silvered haired Twilight look a like. “And after a bunch of weird ass stuff as Rainbow getting herself possessed, almost dying she now lives here and everyone is trying to teach her how to be her own self.”

“Pretty much,” Moonlight answered. I rubbed the sleep off my face and looked at the Twilight look alike. Other than the colours she looked exactly like her, you could pass it off that they were twins. I rolled some ideas in my head for what to do with her, Umbra ponies, basically a shadow doppelganger, are told to be evil and should be wipe out and they should’ve been since I was the one that took them out but here we are with one of them sitting in my home. The only other umbra pony that was still around was… shit.

“Alright I get it, what I want to know is that why is she-”

“Silverlay,” I looked at the silver haired pony as she spoke up.

“What?” I asked her.

“Silverlay, that’s my name.” She told me. I would of talk a bit more but I was too tired to care.

“Right, anyway why is Silverlay here sleeping in my home!” I asked them.

“Well, ya see since you were out of town the girls and light here thought that ya didn’t mind,” Applejack told me. I groaned at that and looked at Silverlay.

“I’m too tired for this shit, how about we talk about this tomorrow when I have some sleep,” I told them. They nodded and headed out since there weren’t any more beds here Silver, I’m calling her that, headed off to AJ’s home. She seemed to be happy with that. With that done and they now gone I went to my bed and flopped on it, passing out right then and there.

A few months and one Displace adventure later

Log #26: Month: I have no clue,
Holy shit I knew that changelings grew up fast but never this fast!

I wrote down that as I watched Stella playing with some toys. She’s about six or seven months old but for some reason she grew up much faster than normal, she looks and acts like a six-year-old. I made a note to ask Jak what the growth cycle is for a metalling. The mane six for the first few months all cooed at her as Rainbow made fun of me about it, why I don’t know. But since I took care and raised Tia and Lu to what they are now I can do this with a metalling. I closed the notebook and set it to the side and looked Stella.

“Stella, I’m heading to Twi’s and Silver’s place, want to come?” I asked her.

“Sure!” She said as she hopped up and ran to me. I smiled and walked out of the door. When that was done I picked her up and set her on my shoulders and headed to the golden oaks. It took a bit but we were walking towards the place when I stopped and looked behind me. I sense something in the Everfree.

“What’s wrong?” Stella asked me.

“I sense a disturbance in the force,” I told her. She started giggling.

“Is it Jar-Jar?” She asked.

“If it was, we would be all doomed,” I told her. I walked to the library and knocked on the door. It opened and I saw Spike there wearing a green T-shirt and desert camo pants.

“Hey Jace, what’s up?” He asked as I set Stella on the ground.

“Hey Spike, I was just coming over to say hi but I have something to do so can look after Stella for me for a bit,” I asked him.

“Sure, Silverlay is here so she could help out,” Spike said as he turned around. “Hey Silverlay, Stella is going to hang out for a bit.”

“OH CELESTIA NO! KEEP THAT DEMON AWAY FROM ME!!!” I heard her yell. I chuckled at that and kneeled down.

“Alright I’m going to be gone for a bit, can you take care of yourself when I’m gone?” I asked her. She nodded and hugged me.

“Come back soon daddy.” She said as she let go and ran inside. I had a look on my face that made Spike look at me.

“Dude, you ok?” He asked me.

“I been called many things in my life but dad isn’t one of them,” I told him.

“You took care of the princesses right, shouldn’t that be the same?” He asked me.

“For them, I was their uncle, being a dad is… something new.” I told him. He nodded and closed the door. I turned and looked in the direction of the Everfree and ported there.

I got to the forest and started to look around. The place is huge but being in here for so many years means that I know my way around. After looking around for an hour I came to a clearing where I saw something in the middle of said clearing.

It looked like the Hulk Buster and it was pounding its claws? onto the ground. I moved around to get a better look at it and I stepped on a twig, Stupid twig, it stopped and turned it’s head to me.

It let out what I could understand was a roar before it raised both its arms in my direction. I wondered what he was going to do until both arms lit up.

“OH SHIT!” I yelled as I ported. I turned and saw it blew up where I once was. I charged a lighting bolt in my hand and threw it at him. It hit him but did jack shit to him, maybe it pissed him off. It turned again and did the same thing with its arms and again I ported away.

*Bang*

As soon as I got my bearings, I looked at the metal behemoth, seeing where its head once was now splattered open before the metallic body fell onto the ground. The slimy parts of the behemoth melted onto the grass. I watched this all happen and I blinked, okay… that happened. I walked to the behemoth and stood ten feet away from it, I have no idea what it is so that means don’t touch it.

“Now what the heck are you?” I said to the corpse, earning a spark of electricity. “I don’t speak sparks.”

“God-ack-dammit.” I heard a deep voice before a series of violent coughs. I looked at the spot where the behemoth was striking at. I saw someone laying there, he had what looked like a metal exo-suit of some sorts. I walked up to him.

“You alright there?” I asked him. He moved his head to me and, I think, looked at me.

“I've just been pounded to the ground before being shot in the heart, I'm feeling peachy.” He said before coughing again. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the black gem pulse a bit. I kneeled down and place my hand on him, casting a simple spell to see how he’s doing. The gem glowed and pulse like a heartbeat. It was slow, very slow.

“Your dying, I’m sorry,” I said bluntly.

“Heh, lucky sho…” With that, his body went limp. The gem went dark for a moment and then brightened as I felt some of the life force went into it. God that feeling is creepy. I looked at the body in front of me. I never asked for his name.

“I’m sorry, there’s nothing I could do other than give you a proper burial,” I told the body.

“System Reboot: 78%.”

I looked at the body and blinked, what? I saw it twitch a bit and I looked at my gem. It was dark.

“What the hell?” I said a loud.

“Activating Defibrillators.” The chest pushed upwards before falling back onto the floor. This happened a second time then a third time before it stopped. His hand closed into a fist three times.

“Okay, that’s something new to see,” I said to myself.

“Ow.” I heard his voice. He moved a bit as I stared at him.

“So your suit can bring you back to life, what else is new.”

“It can and more.” He said before moving his hand up to his helmet and twisted to the side before taking it off. He dropped the helmet on the ground next to him, revealing the face of a normal human. A Latin male, he looked like he's seen some shit judging by the scars and his half burnt face. His hair was a short buzzcut Brown.

“Finally, I can take a breather.” He said before wiping his face. He looked at me for a moment.

“Right, who are you?” I asked him.

“First Lieutenant Samuel Rodriguez of the United States Marine Corps,” He said I nodded at him, dear lord I haven’t heard that for a long time.

“US Marines huh, say did you know anyone named Jeff Rogers?” I asked him.

“No, that name isn't familiar,” He said as he stood up. He stood a little over me which is odd since I was tall to begin with.

“Well Samuel, I’m Jace Beleren nice to meet you,” I told him as I offer him my hand.

“Where am I?” He asked as he looked at our surroundings.

“Everfree forest,” I told him. He looked at me for a moment.

“Forest? I was just in New York.” He said. I blinked at him, oh…

“Quick question, were you at a con dress as you were then you went to one of the stalls and saw a man that looked like the merchant from Resident Evil four and bought something from him?” I asked him.

“What? I was in New York, fighting the war.” He answered. Ummm…

“Okay that’s out of the window, so… have you ever heard of a kids show called My Little Pony?” I asked him again.

“My little sister used to love that show, why?” He said. I gulped and walked up beside him.

“Let’s walk back into town, I have a lot to tell you about,” I said to him as we started to walk.

“And so that’s the deal about this whole thing, any questions?” I asked him. I told him everything about what the hell is up.

“This better be a goddamn joke, millions of lives are at stake and if I'm not there humanity will suffer the end.” He stated, anger seeping through his teeth. I frowned at him.

“Look I know this sounds like a joke but I’m sorry it’s true,” I said to him. We were about twenty minutes from town and with him getting angry it’s better to be outside of the town. He glared at me before letting out a sigh.

“Fine.” He said. I looked at him for a bit.

“You not going to go bat shit insane when we get to town right?” I asked him.

“You have my word as a Dead man.” He said, almost muttering the last part. I nodded and turned and continued walking. I heard a sound from my left as an orc came walking out. It roared at us but was cut short as I fired a mana bolt at him, making him headless. I continued walking as if nothing happened.

“Orcs man, they never learn,” I said out loud. Samuel didn’t say anything. We came to town and I saw him look at the place with wide eyes.

“Yeah, the colours are something, took me a week to get used to it,” I said to him.

He still wouldn't say anything. I frowned and we continued on. We passed by some of the town folks that turned and stared at us but didn’t say anything. I saw Sam look around at them, again nothing. We came to the Golden Oaks and I stopped and looked at him and stared at him. He looked at me.

“Really nothing, not going to ask about the tree home?” I said to him.

“No.” Was his only response.

“Well, you're just a barrel of laughs,” I said as I walked to the door. I think he’s mad at me since he was glaring at the back of my head. I walked into the library to see a very worn out Silverlay laying on the couch. “You look like hell”

“Fuck you.” She said as she rolled over. I rolled my eyes and moved to let Sam in. I sat in on of the chairs and looked at him.

“So do you have anything to ask or say?” I asked him. He took a seat in another chair which creaked under his weight.

“No, I don't,” He said. I frowned at him.

“Look I don’t know what’s going on in your head right now but what I said and what you have seen is real, and I have no idea how to send you back, I gave that up a long time ago,” I told him.

“It's not that, it's something else and it's personal.” He said. I looked at him and shrugged.

“Well I’m not going to ask, it’s better not to ask is what I found out, so what are you going to do now?” I asked him.

“Easy.” He said as he pulled out a large handgun and cocked it before placing it against his head. My eyes went wide at this and moved my hand a bit. I saw him pull the trigger and heard an Thud. He looked at the gun and stared at it, there was a white glow to it. He looked at me as I grabbed him and ported back to the forest and punch him in the face.

“WHAT THE LIVING FUCK!” I yelled at him.

“I was doing what I was ordered to do,” He said as if nothing happened.

“You were ordered to kill yourself, WHY!” I asked him. I felt my anger rise at him.

“If I were to be out of action, the suit would be useless and better off with someone else,” He said before pulling out two dog tags. One had the name Laurence "Prophet" Barnes while the other had the name James “Alcatraz” Rodriguez.

“I honored them and when I don this suit I swore to keep it off the wrong hands, what better place than an alternate reality.” He explained. I was about to yell at him when something clicked.

“What war were you fighting, and what year,” I asked him.

“War for Earth, August 24, 2023,” He said. I stared at him. Oh god he’s one of those displacements.

“Dude, killing yourself won’t change anything, hell there’s probably another you running around in New York right now,” I told him. He looked at me for a moment.

“I am a walking corpse, a zombie. I only live to fight,” He said.

“What would happen if you finish your war, what would happen?” I asked him.

“Then I can rest in peace and join my family.” He answered before looking over my shoulder. I closed my eyes.

“No, you won’t, you would just get sent back to the start of the war with no memory at all,” I told him. I opened my eyes and saw that he was looking at me.

“Better no memory than this,” He said gesturing at himself.

“That’s just it, you’re. Stuck. Like. that.” I told him. He was about to say something but I cut him off. “Remember when I said I was something called a displacement, someone who been taken out of their world and placed into this one well there are others and some of them didn’t come from there.” I looked at him in the eye.

“What do you mean?” He asked me. I took a deep breath and let it out.

“Sometimes and you're the first that I met displacements came from video games, by how you look and that monster that was hitting you, I can guess that you’re from the game Crysis,” I told him.

“A game? You expect me to believe that. What I've gone through was very real and not just some fiction.” He growled.l I looked him in the eye.

“But did everything seemed familiar, the way the enemy was standing, some paths you took that seemed like you took them before, going through the whole thing feeling like you’ve done it before,” I told him. He was silent, not a word. I looked at him for a moment.

“Look I’m sorry but the truth hurts, I should know that I was the same when I figured that I couldn’t go back home.” I closed my eyes again, feeling tears in the back of my eyes. “I used to have a family, a small one but I was happy, now I can’t see her ever again.”

“Her?” He asked. I looked away from him.

“I have… Had a sister, she was five years younger than me before our parents died, she was all I had left and now I couldn’t see her ever.” I said to him. He didn't say anything or acknowledged that he heard.

“I know your pain.” Was all he said before vanishing. I blinked at the spot he was at.

“OK! I GET IT, EVERYONE HATES IT WHEN I DO THAT, DON’T NEED TO RUB IT IN!!!” I yelled up to the sky. With no one answering me I just sighed and went back to town.

For some reason I felt like someone is watching me when I returned back to town, knowing my luck it could be a giant monster wanting to smack me around for a bit. When I got back to the cottage I saw an orange and red blur and something grabbing my leg.

“Daddy!” Stella said as she hugged my leg. I smiled and picked her up.

“Hey Stella, how was your day?” I asked her. She smiled at me.

“I got to play board games with Spike and Twilight, then we went to Sugarcube corner for a snack and Spike gave me this!” She said as she pulled a blue gem. As she did that she looked at it and took a bite out of it. One of the things I found out is that Stella is that she can eat everything that isn’t nailed down, even nails if they're not nailed down.

“Well, it sounds like you had a great day,” I said as I set her down on the couch and rubbed her hair. She giggled at me and smiled at me. I looked up and saw Twilight sitting at the table. “I hope she didn’t bother you.”

“Not at all we had a great day, although she did bug Silverlay for a bit.” She told me. I chuckled at her and smiled. She looked at me and frowned. “Jace, are you alright.”

I was going to say nothing but that feeling of being watched again. I used my magic sense to see what’s up and felt someone else in the room. I recognize him.

“So you went invisible, should've said something before hand,” I said out loud. What I received wasn't what I expected, a metallic growl before a set of eyes shone.

“Twilight! Out Now!” I yelled as I put up a force field as the thing charged at me and slammed on it. I felt my whole body hurt from the impact. I saw out of the corner of my eye that Twilight grabbed Stella and ported away. I looked at the beast and grit my teeth.

“Alright you overgrown scrap pile, eat this!” I said as I pushed the field towards it and sent it flying out of my home, taking the wall with it. I grabbed my sword as I walk out of the cottage and summoning Fate. I aimed my gun at it as it looked at me as I heard sounds coming from behind me, I looked back and saw that there was two more circling me.

“Well then,” I said as I pulled the trigger. I watched as the one dodged the shot and charged at me. I ported behind it and looked at all three of them. “Well that didn’t work, you’re faster then you look”

“But not fast enough.” I heard a familiar voice as he came into view behind one of the and grabbed it by the neck. He took out a knife and slit the things through before throwing the body at another one. Not even a second later he took out another handgun, this one was larger than the last and fired. The things head exploded before the slime oozed out of the metallic body. Leaving one left, I sent fate away and made a spear appear in my hand.

After charging it and made it spark with yellow lighting and charged at it. I stabbed it in the chest, sure these things are fast but for that moment I saw faster. I let the lighting shoot out and making the beast explode. I looked around and at my home.

“My wall,” I said sadly.

“That's the least of your worries, the Ceph are here and have already made a spire by now.” Samuel said as he walked up to one of the corpses.

Samuel Rodriguez

‘Scans show sign of being in cold weather.’

I groaned before straightening back up and started to head towards my destination, north. I was stopped by Beleren.

“What are these things?” He asked me.

“Ceph’s, a race highly intelligent squid-like aliens who are determined to exterminate humanity and those alike,” I explained. He rolled his eyes at that.

“Why is it that who ever comes they bring monster with them, I just have bad luck sometimes,” he said. He moved over to a spot and kneeled down. I was about to ask what he was doing but I saw some kind of dome go over the town. “That should do it.”

“I didn't bring them, they're everywhere all across the universe or multiverse. I've seen them rip the fabric of space but Alcatraz stopped them before total extinction,” I said.

“Monsters that can travel through the void, what else is new, so…” he pulled his spear over his shoulder, “What's the plan of attack?”

“I need to go north,” I said to him. I took hold of some satchel charges that were strapped onto my back.

“If I'm correct, they've set up a base of operation where it is freezing cold,” I said before I started walking. I heard a groan from behind me.

“The frozen north, I was just there a few months ago! Oh well…” I felt his hand on my shoulder and saw my surroundings change from a forest to snowy. I looked around at this change.

“Follow,” I said. As we traversed through the snow, I started to regret not bringing an assault rifle or shotgun before shit went south in Central Park.

My foot came into contact with a metal spike on the snow. I looked down and dug up a bit of the snow before revealing the tip of the spire.

“We're here,” I said before stomping on the snow, causing it to collapse under us. I landed on a ledge near the a large Tube connected to the spire.

‘Cloak engaged’ The suit soon turned see through and allowed me to disappear. I hopped the ledge and landed on a Ceph, silently killing it with a stab in the head afterward.

‘Tactical options available’

Jace

After seeing Sam disappear I looked around the place to see what I could do.

“Let's see, what to do what to do… Make enough noise to bring everything at me and get them to chase me like a raging idiot or something sneaky?” I said to myself. I thought about it I remembered what Samuel said that they built this thing here since it's freezing cold here, what if I turn up the heat?

I could see a dozen patrols but I noticed that slowly their numbers were diminishing. Odd.

I then saw another Ceph in the corner of my eye, only that he didn't notice me. I got a good look at him and well, he's fucking tall.

It was followed by another pair of Ceph, these looked like they meant business.

I placed my hand in front of me and made a red orb and threw it towards them. It passed them and sank into the wall. A second later the wall exploded and a magma giant charged out and tackled the big Ceph. Following behind the giant was five fire servants and fire elementals and well anything that had to do with fire. I did the same to the other side of the place then again at the far end of the place. Soon there a fight between the Ceph and the fire monsters.

I set up where I was sitting and made a sniper rifle appear and took aim at one of the smaller ones and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

And there's one with no head. I went on snipe a few others, only stopping to summon more creatures. I couldn't help but smile at what was going on.

“Guess getting the attention of everything with an army of fire monsters is a good plan.” Bang! Bang! Bang!

I noticed the darker ones were nigh on impossible to hit or shoot, almost as if they knew. I could see that they were heading towards a control panel, I think.

I saw them press a large panel before the spire rose above, revealing its very tall features. I heard two gunshots before their heads suddenly blew open.

Before anything else happened, a large mist came out of the spire.

“No!” I heard Sam yell before he ran towards the spire. I could see that the remaining Ceph were dying but not by normal means. The fog.

He was tackled by another dark Ceph. I tried to shoot it off him only for it to catch the bullet. It then tried to strangle Sam while the latter’s suit shone. Slowly the entire suit shone blue just as the Ceph tried to stab Sam.

The blade bent into a curve as soon as it made contact with Sam before he punched it away. I didn't know what to do, I was at a complete lost and the incoming fog isn't helping, speaking of which, my summoned monsters inhaled the fog before coughing then dying. I looked in shock at that, how the yell did that fog kill my creatures, some of them are made out of pure fire!

I enclosed myself in a bubble just as the fog rolled over me. It encased the shield completely.

I could barely see Samuel as he stood up before ducking down before a blade swung over his head. The suit stopped emitting its blue aura as Sam grabbed the Ceph and charged up to the control panel, where he then started to smash its head on the controls.

They were both dangerously close to the edge that led to nothing but blackness. I could see that the Ceph got lucky and delivered an uppercut, causing Sams helmet to fly off. He looked pissed.

He took hold of the Ceph shoulders before jumping off the ledge, surprising the ceph before it fell as well.

“Sam!” I yelled out. I looked at the fog and closed my eyes to incase myself in a suit of armor.

I let the shield drop and saw the fog incase me, luckily the suit has an air tank. I looked up at the spire.

“Alright, let’s see if you can withstand this.” I said as I put a shield around the spire and made the inside of said shield explode. After doing that for a few minutes I stopped and looked at my handy work, just to see that the spire was still standing without a scratch. “OH COME ON!”

“I have to go in.” I heard Sam's struggling voice as I saw him climb up the ledge. He stood up almost losing his balance in the process before walking towards the spire.

“How are you alive, this weird ass fog straight up killed all of my monsters, some of them were made out of pure fire.” I said to him.

“The Virus, the very same that took Manhattan and if I don't stop this, God have mercy.” He answered all but one question, well two questions.

“Right now I have two questions, what is this virus, cliff notes please, and how are you not dead by it.” I asked him looking around.

He didn't say anything and only raised his hand, placing it on my forehead. I was going to ask what was he doing but then my mind was filled new memories. One stood out the most on account of it being a news broadcast.

“Damn, so that what it is.” I said to him. He nodded and I looked up. I put the sniper on my back and looked up, I saw there was an opening and looked at Sam. “I’m going to try and contain the fog to the best of my ability, can you blow up the spire?”

“Yes.” He said. I was about to contain the fog in a bubble but felt Sam place a hand on my shoulder. Looking at him, I saw a different expression on his face, regret.

“I've thought about what you said and you're right. But I've done many things, things that felt real to me and I was wrong, I'm no super soldier, a zombie or a tin man. I'm just human.” He said before something came out of the spire, forming a way up to the opening. It looked like a giant cable and it stopped just behind Sam before he stood on it.

“Remember me.” Was all he said before the large cable reeled back in with him.

“HEY!” I Yelled as I threw a white orb up to him, it followed him up. I looked up and ported up and out. I looked around and saw that the fog was coming out and I began my work.

Sam

The doors closed behind me as I entered the spire. I could already feel the spores affecting the suit and began to walk to the center of the spire. I stopped as I saw a light coming from behind me, I turned and saw a ball of light coming through the wall and up to me.

“You’re not a human.” It said. I frowned at it but it got brighter, I had to cover my eyes, when it was done I heard a thud! I looked and saw what looked like a shotgun.

“You’re a human with a big ass shotgun, by the way don’t need ammo, just point and shoot.” The voice said. I picked it up before placing it on my back, letting it magnetically stick to it before I started walking.

As I walked through the corridor, the spores started to become unbearable.

Maximum Armor

Using the extra armor, I continued forward, seeing the center of the spire as it blew another swarm of spores. I got onto my knees as my hands were burning from the spores but stood up afterwards.

As I overlooked the center, the suit activated its protocols and was lifted off my feet as my vision was covered by DNA scans, virus and anti-virus comparisons before darkness.

Jace

Who knew that keeping a fog like death thing in a bubble would be hard. I didn’t, no seriously you try keeping an air elemental in a bubble for five minutes it’s a bloody nightmare. So here I was standing in the middle of the frozen north with my hi-tec armor in front a fuck off hole with a deadly fog that can kill everyone if it gets to them inside a bubble with Sam inside of it with a super shotgun doing something. Back at the fog bubble, the fog was pushing on the bubble and I was straining to keep it up.

“Come on Sam, I can’t do this forever.” I muttered to myself as I pushed the fog back a bit more. The whole bubble was filled with the stuff and I don’t want the bubble to pop. What happens next I swear from came straight from hell. The fog, the area around, basically everything went up in flames. I hold the shield up as the whole thing burned. After what seemed like forever the flames died down. Keeping the shield up I dropped in the pit and looked around. I can sum the whole place up with one thing, it looked like hell exploded.

There was fire everywhere, pieces of I don’t know what scattered around and no spire in the middle. I looked around until I saw something on the ground. I went over to it and saw his helmet, I picked it up and looked at it. Other than a broken visor it was still in good shape. I lifted it up and saw something fall out of it, I bent down to pick it up and saw that they were dog tags. I saw that they were his.

‘First Lieutenant Samuel “Sentinel” Rodriguez’

I looked around and used a life scan of the place, only I felt nothing. I sighed and stood up, of course, he won't survive from that, I don’t think I would either, but I still had to look. I spent a few hours looking all over for him but came up with nothing. I ported up and sealed the hole up and caved in the whole place with the earth, after that I went and ported back home to do something for him.

A few hours later.

I stood in front of a gravestone I made in a clearing of the Everfree where I first met Sam at. I placed the helmet on the ground and place a spell on it that only Sam can move it. I looked at the writing on it.

I hold the dog tags in my hand and looked at them. After looking at them I put them on and looked at the grave.

“Your one hell of a guy, crazy too,” I said with a chuckle. I looked at the grave and frowned. “But thank you, you saved many lives today.”

I stared at the grave for a bit and remembered our talk we have before the whole thing happened. I closed my eyes at one part, my sister. Looking up I turned and walk back home.

Sam

Darkness. That is all I can see, everywhere I looked I can only see darkness. Truth be told this wasn’t what I thought death would look like, I was thinking more of ‘a light at the end of the tunnel’ kind of deal but nope, just darkness. I started to walk forward but it I couldn’t tell if I was moving forward, I couldn’t tell what was up from down.

“Trippy.” I said to myself.

“Hello Samuel.” A female voice said from behind me. I turned around and saw a black robed figure standing there.

“Who are you?” I asked her. She chuckled that sent shivers down my spine.

“I have many names, The Shepherd of the Dead, the Grim reaper, the shadow that follows, The Weaver but you can call me Lady Black.” She said to me. I blinked at her, so… she was death.

“So I'm dead? For real this time and the suit won't bring me back?” I asked. I didn't like being revived every single time I die.

“In a way, you died in how the knight calls it ‘In a blaze of glory’ and your suit won’t bring you back from it.” She said to me.

“Good, it means I did it.” I sighed out. I looked at her and saw her gone, I looked around until I felt two arms wrap around me. Those arms felt cold, colder than normal.

“Yes, but fate has other plans for you, Samuel.” she whispered in my ear. I turn to her and frowned.

“What do you mean?” I asked her. She floated back and waved in a random direction.

“Do you believe that the Ceph would just invade the knights world, they have been popping up in other worlds and destroying them with nothing to stop them,” She tilted her head a bit and I thought I was a bone white smile on her. “But there’s is one world that lived longer than the rest, the world that been fighting the Ceph for thousands of years but they are losing and won’t last long, they need help, Samuel.”

“So what, you’re going to send me to this world,” I said angrily. She just shook her head.

“No, I’m the Weaver I see fate of everyone but I can’t force someone to do that, so I’ll give you a choice: Get sent to the afterlife and accept death to reunite with your love ones but doom many worlds to the Ceph or return to the world of the living and go to this world and save thousand of lives but would push your death back further away.” She looked at me and I saw two orbs of white. “What do you choose.”

“...Where do I sign up,” I said with the crack of my knuckles. She smiled again and lift her hand up and I could see her hand, It was white and pale.

“Arise Samuel Rodriguez, arise and become something that the Ceph fear, become a soldier of death and give thousands of lives to save millions.” She chanted. I felt like a cold wind wrap around and then hands began to grab me and pull me under, into the darkness. The last thing I saw was Lady Black looking at me with her two white eyes and smile. Then everything when to black.

I opened my eyes to see that I had my helmet back on. I sat up and looked around and saw that I was in a forest again, I also saw the shotgun I got from the spire. I stood up and picked it up and checked if it loaded, which it was and I thought of something. I pulled the two shots out and snapped the gun closed, as soon as I did I felt it vibrate for a second and I checked it again. Sure enough, there were two more shells in it.

“Weird.” Was all I said. I heard a familiar growl in front of me. Closing up the barrel, I looked up and saw a Ceph Stalker in front of me. Pulling the trigger, Its head blew off before the body landed on the floor. I stagger a few steps back at the kickback of the gun.

“Some kick to it, huh alright,” I said to myself. I heard more growls around me before a familiar voice.

Tactical options Available

“Oh yeah.” I said as I aimed the shotgun.

“Payback time, bitches.” I said as I fired at one before hitting another with the stock of the gun.

Jace

I walked back to the outskirts of Ponyville and saw that the dome I placed was still up. I went to the edge of it and place my hand on it and saw it went away. The shield wasn’t that special, it just kept anything and everything out of it and kept everyone in the place in. It also made sure that they didn’t know what was going on, the world would have been destroyed and they won’t been the wiser.

As the dome went away I went to my cottage. I opened the door and walked in to see Twilight sitting on the couch with Stella sleeping on her lap. Twilight looked up at me and gave me a smile.

“She was worried about you know.” She told me. I nodded and went to pick her up and took her to her room. Normally the cottage had only a few rooms in it, mostly four but with the power of magic I can magically make another room if I want. I went into Stella’s room and place her on her bed and put a blanket on her. I then grabbed a stuffy ,a small little white puff ball with brown horns and a pink tongue sticking out and set it to beside her.

She hugged the stuffy and had a small smile on her. I smiled and walked out of the door and looked at Twilight. She looked at me with a smile.

“You know I never saw you as a father figure.” She said to me. I shrugged at her.

“Never thought I would become on, but hey life is weird,” I told her. I walked passed her and snapped my fingers, making my clothes change to a black shirt and brown sweat pants. I sat down on the couch with a sigh and looked over to Twilight and saw that she was frowning. “Something wrong?”

“Before that monster attacked you, you looked sad is there something wrong?" She asked. I frowned at that and looked away. I saw that my wall was fixed so yay.

“It's just… old memories that I almost forgot over time, I just remembered them and it puts me into a bit of a funk.” I told her. She sat down beside me and looked at me.

“You want to talk about it? You'll feel a bit better if you talk to a friend,” she asked me. I looked at her from the corner of my eye. I made a cocky grin at her.

“Did you get that from one of your friendship lessons?” I joked with her. She blinked at me. She then blushed and started to fidget.

“Well yes, is there something wrong with that?” she asked me. I chuckled for a bit.

“It's alright Twilight, I think it's for the best if I talked about this or it will start eating me on the inside,” I said. I leaned forward as I remember the memories that I pushed down for so long.

“You know that I'm not from around here right,” I said to Twilight. She nodded at me.

“Of course, you said you were a displacement.” she replied.

“Yeah well here's the thing about that, I was taken from my old world, now I'm not saying that I regretting because if I didn't come I wouldn't have done a lot of my life, coming here made my life worth something.”I looked away and I sighed. “But if I have any regret it would be leaving my sister, my only family I had.”

“What’s her name?” Twilight asked. I looked at her and then down to the floor.

“Rose, her name is Rose.

???

“ACHOO!!!” I sneezed. I blinked a couple times at that. Where did that come from?

“You ok?" Cadence asked me. I sniffled and rubbed my nose.

“Yeah I'm fine, I think someone is talking about me, I hope it's nothing bad," I said. I picked up the tea and took a sip of it.

"So, changelings invade your wedding…”

Author's Notes:

Tada!! A new chapter! So as you can see it's another crossover with Legion, I have plans to do other crossovers just need to set up the times -_-

This crossover is a little odd since the other story by Legion isn't made yet so... think of it as a prequel to that story (For those who read this in the future and the other story is now made, HELLO!)

Next Silverlay, let me be clear here, she's not my character. Those rights go to Estories or Think Pink or whatever the name is and is the star of her own comic 'Seeds of Darkness'. If you haven't seen or heard of them then go check them out.

Lastly, Who's the person Jace is talking about and what up with the ending...

See you all in the next Chapter :)